Tour de France 2008/5. stage

00000 Result of the 5th stage 00000
		Mark Cavendish (THR)	5:27:52 h
2.		Óscar Freire Gomez (TLJ)	equal time
3.		Erik Zabel (MRM)	equal time
4th		Thor Hushovd (CA)	equal time
5.		Baden Cooke (BAR)	equal time
6th		Robert Hunter (BAR)	equal time
7th		Leonardo Duque (COF)	equal time
8th.		Robbie McEwen (OLO)	equal time
9.		Francesco Chicchi (CAN)	equal time
10.		Julian Dean (CPT)	equal time
		Nicolas Vogondy (AGR)
Intermediate results after the 5th stage
		Stefan Schumacher (GST)	19:32:33 h
2.		Kim Kirchen (THR)	+ 0:12 min
3.		David Millar (CPT)	+ 0:12 min
		Thor Hushovd (CA)	88 pts.
2.		Óscar Freire Gomez (TLJ)	85 pts.
3.		Kim Kirchen (THR)	81 pts.
		Thomas Voeckler (DEN)	19 pts.
2.		Sylvain Chavanel (COF)	11 pts.
3.		Björn Schröder (MRM)	9 pts.
		Thomas Lövkvist (THR)	19:33:20 h
2.		Vincenzo Nibali (CAN)	+ 0:11 min
3.		Maxime Monfort (COF)	+ 0:37 min
		Garmin Chipotle	58:37:35 h
2.		Team Columbia	+ 1:44 min
3.		Team CSC-Saxo Bank	+ 2:35 min

The 5th stage of the Tour de France 2008 on July 9th was 232 kilometers long, making it the longest stage of the 2008 Tour. It ran from Cholet to Châteauroux . There were three sprint classifications on the program, there were no mountain classifications.

The race started very quickly after the start, a group consisting of Lilian Jégou , Florent Brard and Nicolas Vogondy was only able to break away from the field at kilometer 11, each of whom won a sprint classification during the course of the stage. After that, things got quieter in the field, where the Gerolsteiner team mostly made the pace. The three outliers were able to achieve a maximum advantage of 8:15 minutes. Alejandro Valverde was also affected in one of the falls in the field, but he was able to continue the race without major injuries. The field only caught up with Jégou and Brard two kilometers before the finish in Châteauroux, the undaunted fighting Vogondy tried to win the stage and was overtaken by the sprinters only fifty meters before the finish line. There Mark Cavendish was able to prevail on the 1,600 meter long and 8.5 meter wide home straight ahead of Óscar Freire and Erik Zabel in the sprint. There were no changes in the individual ratings. Mauricio Soler , winner of the dotted jersey last year, who crashed again in the neutral zone on this tour, had to give up the tour.

tasks

• 51 Mauricio Soler - during the stage, fall

Sprint ratings

• 1st intermediate sprint in Argenton-les-Vallées (33.5 km) (105 m above sea level)

First	Lilian Jégou	6 pts.
Second	Nicolas Vogondy	4 pts.
Third	Florent Brard	2 pts.

• 2nd intermediate sprint in Richelieu (98.5 km) (48 m above sea level)

First	Florent Brard	6 pts.
Second	Nicolas Vogondy	4 pts.
Third	Lilian Jégou	2 pts.

• 3rd intermediate sprint in Le Grand-Pressigny (kilometer 152) (63 m above sea level)

First	Nicolas Vogondy	6 pts.
Second	Florent Brard	4 pts.
Third	Lilian Jégou	2 pts.

• Finish sprint in Châteauroux (km 232) (156 m above sea level)

First	Mark Cavendish	35 pts.
Second	Óscar Freire	30 pts.
Third	Erik Zabel	26 pts.
Fourth	Thor Hushovd	24 pts.
fifth	Bathing Cooke	22 pts.
Sixth	Robert Hunter	20 pts.
seventh	Leonardo Duque	19 pts.
Eighth	Robbie McEwen	18 pts.
Ninth	Francesco Chicchi	17 pts.
Tenth	Julian Dean	16 pts.
11.	Robert Forster	15 pts.
12.	Gert Steegmans	14 pts.
13.	Romain Feillu	13 pts.
14th	Sébastien Chavanel	12 pts.
15th	Jimmy Casper	11 pts.
16.	Iñaki Isasi	10 pts.
17th	Magnus Backstedt	9 pts.
18th	Xavier Florencio	8 pts.
19th	Jérôme Pineau	7 pts.
20th	Sven Krauss	6 pts.
21st	Nicolas Vogondy	5 pts.
22nd	Rubén Pérez	4 pts.
23.	Juan Antonio Flecha	3 pts.
24.	Filippo Pozzato	2 pts.
25th	Vladimir Yefimkin	1 point